Orion Electronics
| Orion Elektronikai Kft
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| legal form | Kft ( GmbH ) |
| founding | 1913 |
| Seat | Budapest , Hungary |
| Number of employees | 250 (2010) |
| sales | 31 million euros (2010) |
| Branch | Contract manufacturer , repair service provider , marketing |
| Website | orionelec.com |
The Orion Electronic Ltd. (English Orion Electronics Ltd. ) is a Hungarian manufacturing plant and a repair service . In addition, the company offers marketing solutions and the distribution and storage of products for the company.
history
The company was founded in Budapest in 1913 as a manufacturer of light bulbs and began manufacturing radios in 1920 . Orion was one of the largest radio producers in the world in the 1920s and 1930s. Later, in 1956, Orion expanded its product line to include televisions; the company's first color television set appeared in 1975. Orion was a state-owned company for a long time until it was privatized in the early 1990s and taken over in 1997 by the Singaporean investor Thakral Group , which employs 8,000 people worldwide and has annual sales of $ 2.5 billion achieved. Orion has continued to exist as an independent subsidiary since then. The company went from being a consumer electronics manufacturer to being a contract manufacturer. Orion has been a production partner of Logitech in Europe since 2001 .
Business activity
Orion is now a manufacturing company and manufactures for 15 customers, including General Electric , JVC Kenwood and Logitech . Consumer electronics under the Orion brand are manufactured by the consumer electronics manufacturer Orion Denki , founded in Osaka in 1958 , and only sold by the Hungarian Orion Electronics.
Branches
Orion Electronics has offices in Hungary , Romania , Russia and Ukraine . In Hungary, in addition to the headquarters in Budapest, there is also a logistics center in Sóskút .
Customers
The company's customers include:
- Arrow Electronics (USA)
- General Electric (USA)
- Wipac Ltd. (United Kingdom)
- Suprajit Automotive Ltd. (India)
- Smarteq Wireless AB (Sweden)
- Framatome (France)
- Nualight (Netherlands / Ireland)
- Daikin Industries , Ltd. (Japan)
- JVC Kenwood (Japan)
- Logitech SA (Switzerland)
- Eltek ASA (Norway)
- Hosiden Besson Ltd. (United Kingdom)
- Delta Dore SA (France)
- SIIX Corporation (Japan)
- Thealec SA (France)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e PowerPoint presentation with self-portrayal of the company ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. From: Orion Electronics, accessed June 10, 2013
- ↑ International website ( Memento of the original dated December 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on orionelec.com
- ↑ Logitech press release on logitech.com
- ↑ Logitech has production in Hungary at golem.de
